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In this work, we propose a computational cognitive model that provides an artificial agent (e.g., robot, virtual assistant) with the capability to personalize a museum visit to the goals and interests of the user that intends to visit the museum by taking into account the goals and interests of the museum curators that have designed the exhibition. In particular, we introduce and analyze a special type of help (critical help) that leads to a substantial change in the user\u2019s request, with the objective of taking into account the needs that the same user cannot or has not been able to assess. The computational model has been implemented by exploiting the multi-agent oriented programming (MAOP) framework JaCaMo, which integrates three different multi-agent programming levels. We provide the results of a pilot study that we conducted in order to test the potential of the computational model. 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